skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know how this whole thing started? It seems you're just coming in and dismissing the whole thing, when the person who started it with $50k is now sitting on gains of $50m and even people who bought in yesterday are up almost 2x.
Not sure I understand the metaphor, but I think so. Here's a good intro to the mythology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=AsTCB0ud2zM
> Somehow we'll go from not being able to buy certain stocks to violence?

Please read this whole thread (https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6omry/an_o...)

This isn't about buying stock any more. This has become a battleground. The people in this thread are normal people fighting back for the first time in their lives.
Not so clear cut. If you hype stock to PROFIT from it by selling before it crashes, that is market manipulation. If you hype stock because you believe it is an amazing opportunity, and you happen to diversify before it crashes - that is talking about things in public.

A bunch of people hyping each other up? Also talking in public about what they like. If that moves markets? That happens.

If that opportunity is a short squeeze (which it still appears to be - newest data I can find is GME is still at 120%+ short interest), then it gets really really confusing - and I'm not sure how this is going to sort out.

People going on public news networks saying they've 'got out' and other articles talking about folks no longer being short - that would be clear market manipulation if not true.
WSB is not buying the stock with the purpose of pushing the price up beyond realising that by buying and holding, it makes covering short positions more difficult to cover.

It is not illegal.
I think your reply makes he same mistakes as some popular ideologies in the last century. They look good on paper, but fail to acknowledge reality and human nature.

If you think mentorship and technical review committees can solve anything: They cannot. People who are warming the chairs in those committees never do any actual work on the issue trackers and try to bully the real workers.
> It’s crazy that I’m 2021 we don’t have video calling that isn’t a ginormous performance hog

It sure is. On the other hand, the big tech companies did not view video calls as a critical use case until ~9 months ago.

You can see this in how much Chrome has improved in its last 3 releases. A year ago, you could play ~15 videos simultaneously in a page on Chrome before <stalling, chaos, and crashing>. Now, on the same machine, you can play >50. This matters for video calls because the standard stream topology these days for multi-party calls is 1 up, N down, where N is the number of participants in the call.

Hardware and OS support is critical, too, so this is an ecosystem challenge.

- encoder pipelines don't do low-resolution streams very well, which matters for large video calls
- encoder pipelines don't do variable framerate, variable resolution, large resolution/low-framerate, and "non-standard" resolutions as well as they could
- hardware support for newer codecs (vp9, h265, av1) would help
- decoder pipelines aren't great at decoding lots of small videos in parallel

Everyone focused on single-stream video playback for the last few years, which led to really amazing improvements watching video. Nobody complains anymore about their fan spinning up every time they watch Netflix. Now we have to put the same effort into the building blocks needed for video calls.
Am I the only one who see's parallels between the above paranoia and "the election was stolen and they're not even hiding it?"
You ever try making an assessment like this in regular conversation?
And they stop the manipulation by more manipulation? Why isn’t the trade blocked entirely for those stocks? Having the ability to sell seems like an inviting open door towards a specific outcome. I closed my RH account today
Given the existence of end-to-end strong encrypted group chat systems, it is trivial to construct something between your #1 and #2. Simply use end-to-end strong encrypted group chat and require that when a user creates a new chat room that they invite a government agent into the room.
I am not a lawyer, but I assume that they would not get in trouble for contract breach but rather for market manipulation.
That's why the world needs more decentralized technologies. Pro DeFi & other decentralized tech.
So definitely double standards.
>> this insistence on viewing 'Wall Street' as a monolithic entity.

That's not a fair statement. "Wall Street" isn't viewed as a monolithic entity. It's viewed as an entity, or industry. In fairness, Wall Street is even more insular than other industries that we happily refer to as a group: Petrogas, real estate developers, silicon valley, etc.
Here's a question. How much of the investors in funds like Melvin are actually wealthy family offices and high-net worth folk, and how much are pension funds, endowments, etc?

Because if it's the latter, then the losers here aren't billionaires and Wall Street.
Human brains try really hard not to be analogue.
That is very interesting to hear! I imagined that this was the perfect storm for HFT. Lots of retail investors using default exchange routing settings via brokers like Robinhood and ETrade that sell their order flow. Meanwhile these retail investors are buying small amounts of very volatile equities! Lots of opportunity to rack up lots of pennies.
Am I the only one, who finds the second sample has the more natural sounding equalization?
The noise can be improved, but the third one sounds somewhat off, with too much hum in the lower frequencies.
Sound quite tricky to figure out a true neutral curve.

https://music.washington.edu/magnetic-wire-recordings

"But the input circuit would have to be designed to take the exact level and impedance that was generated by the original head, and there would have to be a recalculation of what the original equalization curve of wire recording was. It probably would not work with a stock amplifier--Theoretically it would be best to rebuild a new amplifier to get the lowest noise specs, but if you only have a small number of wires to dub then it would be an expensive exercise for just a few items. With dozens or hundreds of wires it might be worthwhile. The old amps from those machines were very noisy, and are much worse now that their parts have aged so much."

Doing this purely digitally might of cause be easier these days.

see also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization#The_RIAA_cur...
> they don't allow changing how many spaces pressing Tab while in Normal mode moves the cursor forward

I'm pretty sure vanilla Vim doesn't do anything when pressing Tab in Normal mode - at least for me it certainly doesn't move the cursor.
If anyone has any hints on getting qutebrowser to not suck up battery and CPU on macOS Big Sur it would be much appreciated. Maybe things will smooth out in 2.0?
Assuming that you are in cash or another asset class that isn't being sold off.
yes Financial Times! this is a real low for a journalist...
> Broker apps like Robinhood will be absolutely overwhelmed with sell orders

Shouldn't be possible. Most of the messages to the orderbook, by orders of magnitude, would be market makers doing add/cancel, which isn't something that comes from RH anyways.

How often is one particular user going to send in an order? 10 times a day if they're particularly busy? Doesn't touch the sides. The internet facing gateways can be scaled up easily if that's even needed, they aren't latency sensitive. The inside towards the exchange can be made extremely fast.

I've built systems that do this.
> Can someone help me understand Robinhood's POV?

Robinhood is a margin-lending options-trading broker. If a customer falls down on a trade, it is ultimately liable. If a retail customer loses money and makes a FINRA complaint that Robinhood induced them to buy through its gameified interface, it is liable. Risk and compliance likely made this call.

Also, Robinhood makes its revenue from market makers. They are the customers. Clients are not. So when trading these equities gets unprofitable, they will pull the plug. (Though anecdotally, everyone I know on the sell side in equities and equity derivatives is making a killing on this.)

What I can guarantee is nobody shorting GameStop got Robinhood to pull the plug.
Right now it looks like retail investors stuck it to Wall Street and made some money because GME is still over $400/share this morning. Everyone holding GME can look at their app and feel great.

But not everyone is going to be able to sell it at $400... or even $100 in some cases. It will be interesting to see how everyone feels after the sell off.
I like channel, I even use it as RSS reader. Sticker, Gif feel so much better in telegram. Saved messages, 1 member private channel for quick notes. And telegram has true native app for all major OS, not electron like signal.
I would encourage you to read up on "the success sequence". It's very simple to avoid poverty, but it involves depriving yourself of pleasure. I say this as someone who grew up in poverty and escaped it.
The market makers are making _bank_ right now off of the premiums. They're the last people to request a halt.
KS is just the destination registrar. Most of the domains were from NetSol from what I can tell.
I also don't care about a hedge fund losing out but Id hardly call the current value of Gamestop to be "real" Economics.

And for the few /r/wsb guys and girls making a killing there are a lot more late comers who will lose big, and can't afford to.
Why should broker allow margin trading at all? If it's about risk, then who's the decider/calculator of the risk? I think this is the reason why there is a distrust from the next generation.
Except if I were to protest it is focused on that one employer / hits them.

Meanwhile this financial system is hardly just a monolithic monster and plenty of big institutions will make money too.

I think the populist ideas / results around this are all weirdly misguided.
I'm not so sure. This subreddit is immensely popular right now, when they get banned the receiving backslash might be Reddits Digg-moment. And they are probably aware of this.
Mutually assured destruction makes a comeback in the masses?
I don't think that "calm down" is an appropriate response; you don't know anything about my state of calmness, or lack thereof. Even if you did, it's frankly not your business whether I am calm or not, nor does it affect the quality of my argument.

I appreciate your clarification, however. I withdraw my assertion that you were trying to minimize what happened on January 6th. And I apologize.
I think it is about the money. It will definitely be about the debts, which were unwittingly taken on by everyone who bought on margin at these levels. The price will collapse.

The other bad assumption in this article is thinking the hedge funds are on one side of this. Some hedge funds made fortunes in the short squeeze.
This is categorically false.
> They should be forced to provide the service they promised

Read the TOS. This was never promised.
>make sure you have a
broadband connection like DSL or Cable.
This file is too large to download from a dial up connection.

Very emphatic, not like today's news portal which plays video automatically.
We have email with autocrypt to rally to.

Abandon the smart phone crap and anything with a large organization attached to it.
The problem is that many places want to hire developers and have them deliver as soon as they get a devenv, with zero efforts on training, naturally that only works if the experience is already there.
Rust is a great language for writing Python extensions, using a library like PyO3. Some of the most CPU-intensive parts of my company's feature engineering pipeline are now handled in Rust.

I would enjoy writing Rust for Python even more if I could compile and run Rust straight from the same Jupyter notebooks that I prototype my Python code with.

https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3
The endgame here is fascinating to me.

The people who got in early will suffer least when GSE finally crashes and burns. But the poor suckers who bought it at $150 are going to be in big trouble. They're all trying to stay strong and hold long because that's the way to make the hedge funds suffer, but the smarter ones will figure out that their only chance to not lose their shirts is to be in the earliest 5% of scabs to get out, and then it's going to be a bloodbath when everybody gets trampled running for the exit door.

Meanwhile a couple of hedge funds go under while the rest just call it Tuesday.
Three Ways to Develop, #1 – Working Solo
Here's a quote from George Carlin that's perhaps applicable here -

“Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.”
Agreed its hyperbolic. Some might be terrified. Depending on how the narrative shifts the dominant cognitive effect could go from terror to amazement or admiration. If so we might see second order effects like submission (if it shifts to admiration) or awe (if it moves toward amazement). I imagine its a good opportunity for a reboot for populist leaders of previous movements (tea party and occupy). But they will have to struggle for the same mindshare.
Maybe its true, but that just shifts the blame and doesn't change anything or solve anything. Try as we might, "fixing" programmers just isn't realistic, so the only thing we can do is look for ways to improve the tools to make them encourage better practices.

Going back to the ORM example, I'm cool with just using SQL. The language encourages a style of thinking that fits with databases and it being a separate language makes it clear that there's a boundary there, that its not the same as application code. However, I'd also be ok with an ORM that enforced this boundary and clearly separated query logic from application logic.

As for OOP, I don't know what the solution there is. Maybe there isn't one. I like to use OOP, but sparingly, and at least in my personal code (where I have control over this), its worked out really well. A lot of code is transforming data structures and a functional approach maps really well to this, but for overall architecture/systems and even for some small things that just map well to objects, its great to have OOP too. In my toy game, I use inheritance to conveniently create external (dll/so) modules, but inside the engine, most data is transformed in a functional style. Its working quite well. I'm not sure how you could redesign the paradigms to encourage this though, outside of designing languages to emphasize these things.
How is that a lesson? What consequences have they endured that will affect their future behavior? "Eyeballs" is not a lesson.
Lots of people call it a riot if a crowd does not immediately disperse when ordered to do so. Like super immediately.
I volunteered to be infected with 50 parasitic worms for a research study
What's surprising is all the concern for redditors here and elsewhere; whilst the overwhelming vibe from r/wsb is this meme resulting in squeeze is strictly personal and not at all business for most that are holding on.

The rest (presumably greedy) are either making money or losing money because they're either riding up with the market or down. That's a feature of the zero-sum game that the financial system has been reduced to both the benefit and the detriment of the greed that's on all sides of the table.
With 175MM+ pageviews yesterday alone, I'm sure they're ecstatic about WSB's growth.

This chapter in WSB has brought forth substantially better communication with the admins than we'd ever had in the past, including a direct line to Alexis.

Edit:

Thank you all for the outpour of support!

Our main challenges thus far have been technical (hitting API limits, automoderator backlog, etc.) however, those issues have now been resolved and our bots are running better than ever before.

We largely owe our success in handling this to the Reddit engineering team who has routinely stepped up and fixed things. As chaotic as the scene has been for us moderators, I'm sure they have been under much more pressure. If you know a reddit engineer, please give them your thanks as they have done a phenomenal job.

For those curious, the surge in activity broke a number of things. Here are just a few:

> modmail surpassing 80,000+ messages resulting in modmail going down

> constant threads hitting 100,000 comments resulting in slow loading site-wide

> automoderator getting backlogged and taking 30+ minutes to parse comments leading to terrible comments getting through.

All these issues are now resolved, so once again, big thanks to the Reddit engineering team!
Agreed, definitely use 2fa if it’s offered. What many people don’t realize is that there are a lot of registrars still using less secure platforms. So moving to a more secure registrar can help as well.

I mention registering for 5 years in the future because if something like this happens, there will be no question as to whether or not you lost the domain because it expired.
They will take a haircut and move on. Some of the plebes rushing the doors are going to get crushed.

Given that a lot of people egging the plebes absolutely 'know better' you have to wonder what their motivations are.
Exactly. Good on you. I am with Tastyworks and IB, but IB seems to be playing shenanigans with GME today as well.
I can help screw over hedge fund managers?

As long as you are cool with your actions making a bunch of different hedge fund mangers richer at the same time.
"terrifying new Occupy Wall Street" probably will get more clicks than "disturbing new method of market manipulation."
Likely phishing or some other account takeover tactic. Also not "squatters". This domain was stolen.
I don't think he's arguing FOR stopping the trades. I think he's worried about the folks participating financial well being.

We worry about that (people's retirement savings and so on) anytime we see market corrections, a given company go under, and etc... it's not an unusual concern.
This really wouldn't be the first time Robinhood changed their software to prevent it's users from doing exceptionally stupid things with margin.
That seems to be the minority view among pundits and analysts, and disregards the large amount of funds jumping into the fray to squeeze the shorts.

Trading against shorts instead of fundamentals isn't market manipulation.
Should, as in ethically? Surely not legally.
That's a different game. Our game's here: http://vnav.io
It is called bookmarks, I really don't get the tabpocalypse.
Sorry, but what WSB is doing is free speech. Any analyst can get on TV and announce a price target. What WSB is doing is no different. WSB is a transparent group and everything they say can be read by the public.
Depends on the nature of the change. Some migrations require additional infrastructure to migrate safely. But I imagine most changes you’re talking about are the cost in terms of time spent.
Keep in mind that this discussion is about one's personal project.

The situation changes if you have a small team of maintainers dedicated on a project. But most personal projects won't write a full acceptance suite just to start accepting contributions.
Sounds like Tesla is using dark patterns to disincentivize cars from other manufacturers to use the charging stations.

They are asking for regulatory intervention.
>It’s not my fault their business model is failing for a particular ticker on a particular day.

As I see it, regardless of how it should be, one needs to accept that trading with RH has limitations/trade-offs compared to a "proper" brokerage. I get your statement, but like you said, their track record already speaks for itself.
Firefox was my main browser for a long time. But after an upgrade it starting misbehaving in some way that I don’t remember now.

It seems to be difficult to generalize about these things. Someone will say that a particular version of a browser leaks memory, or pegs the CPU, and someone else will say that the same version has no problems.
I agree. Vegans are usually 'all or nothing' when it comes to animal welfare. However, if you could increase the quality of life of farm animals from miserable to decent for the majority of their lifespans, that would surely eliminate the majority of animal suffering overall. I don't get why someone who claims to be concerned about animal welfare wouldn't promote such efforts.
Blocking people from buying a stock is not the same as blocking people from profiting off of a stock; nobody knows what the future valuation of the stock will be, so if you prevent people from buying, you may just as well be preventing them from losing money as from gaining.

Keep in mind that this is very likely a zero-sum game. At some point the bubble will pop, and as many people as gained money on the way up will lose money on the way down.
I don't care if Robinhood bans trading or not. Don't have an account with them and likely never will. Aside from some fairly obvious things (states generally shouldn't advertise their lotteries for example), people should be able to do whatever they want with their money. And it's probably pretty fruitless to try to stop them from doing so in general.
And now you see the necessity of violence to advance political goals.
Telegram is substantially more feature rich. However Signal is open source. However that only really matters on the front - end. Nobody can inspect the code on a server unless you have access.

You'll ultimately have a make a descision based on who you trust more.
Umm, no. Every single call option in the chain is ITM. That's suicide for tomorrow, when shares must be delivered.
> who's the decider/calculator of the risk?

The lender. As in all loans. As is in every detail described in one’s margin contract.
Not at all.

The people that make it are developing a blockchain product that uses IPFS, but that is totally separate.
The irony of all this is that ultimately people will stop buying and prices will fall. Then all the regular people who participated in this will be stuck holding falling stock. Panicked selling will ensure, crashing the price.

At the end of the day then, both institutional and retail investors will get screwed.
Then you have not been paying attention to WSB for very long. It's full of degenerate gamblers, so many loss porn posts come from people saying, "How will I pay my rent this month?"

Most of the time, WSB is a community to commiserate about losses and lie about gains.
That's because win32 was developed before graphic cards in PCs were a thing. They made a design decision to make the application own redrawing the window if it got overdrawn.